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Description
Franz Wacik
(Vienna 1883 – 1938 Vienna)
Proposal
watercolour and pencil on paper, 14 x 10.6 cm
signed Franz Wacik
Draft sketch for an illustration by Hoffmann
ESTIMATE €80 – €150
STARTING PRICE €80
Franz Wacik was an Austrian artist. His artistic training began at the Strehblow painting school, which Wacik attended after business school whilst also working as an office clerk. He subsequently studied under Alfred Roller at the Vienna School of Applied Arts. From 1902 to 1908, Wacik studied painting with Christian Griepenkerl, Franz Rumpler and Heinrich Lefler at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Wacik made a name for himself as a book illustrator, particularly of children’s and young people’s literature, for example with colour illustrations of works by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Hugo von Hoffmannsthal, Clemens Brentano, fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and the folk tales of Till Eulenspiegel. For the book series ‘Austria’s Hall of Fame’, he illustrated the volumes on Franz Schubert and Franz Grillparzer. Wacik also worked for the magazines ‘Die Muskete’, ‘Jugendrotkreuz’ and ‘Gerlach’s (sic) Jugendbibliothek’. In 1913, he designed the poster for the spring exhibition of the Vienna Secession. Other artists and styles: Rudolf Bacher, Christian Griepenkerl, Vienna Secession, Vienna Künstlerhaus, Wiener Werkstätte, Alfred Roller, Franz Rumpler, Heinrich Lefler, Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser
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